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IoT adoption to drive growth in PaaS, Gartner says
More than half of all applications developed on Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) will be Internet of Things (IoT) centric by 2020, according to research house Gartner Inc. In a new report titled “Predicts 2016: PaaS Innovation Continues Unabated”, Gartner reveals how the rise in IoT adoption will drive much greater use of PaaS as the favorite way ...
One third of software developers are running scared of AI
Just under a third of software developers are living in fear of artificial intelligence systems, which they believe may one day push them out of a job. That was the highlight of a new survey from Evans Data Corp., which quizzed some 550 software developers and asked them what was the most worrisome thing in ...
Cisco acquires Synata to boost Spark search capabilities
Cisco Systems Ltd. is looking to boost the search capabilities of its Spark collaboration application, having just acquired enterprise search technology maker Synata. Synata offered technology that allowed enterprises to search their on-premises and cloud-based applications from a single venue. That service has now been shut down, but will be integrated into Cisco Spark, an ...
Flash fumbles as industry revenues fall 2.3 % in Q4
The NAND Flash industry is fumbling a bit, with revenues of just $8.307 billion reported for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015. That might sound like a lot, but it’s five percent less than one year ago, and also 2.3 percent less than the industry raked in during the third quarter of 2015. Stifel Nicolaus ...
Google open-sources its VSAQ security assessor for enterprises
Google wants to help vendors to better scrutinize their own security practices, and to do so its just lent its internal assessment software to the open-source community. Google says that it uses its Vendor Security Assessment Questionnaire (VSAQ), which is actually a collection of several “self-adapting questionnaires”, to assess the security risks associated with hundreds ...
Microsoft delays Windows 10’s “Redstone 2” update until spring 2017
Microsoft made a promise last year that Windows 10 will be the “last ever version” of its venerable operating system as it transitions to a Windows-as-a-Service strategy that’ll see it just roll out regular updates in a similar fashion to what Google does with Android. The first major update is slated for later this summer, ...
SUSE eyes private clouds with OpenStack Cloud 6
Open-source Linux purveyor SUSE LLC has just whipped up a new OpenStack offering, called SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6, aimed at making private clouds both easy to adopt and enterprise-friendly, with no risk of vendor lock-in. The latest version of SUSE’s OpenStack distribution is based on the stable OpenStack Liberty release, and offers a number of ...
Meet the “Internet of Things Architect”: The next big role in IT?
In demand data scientists could soon be a thing of the past, as the emergence of a new role in corporate IT circles looks set to take precedent as the new must-have addition to any executive team. Say hello to the “Internet of Things Architect”, or just IoT Architect if we’re going to be brief, ...
Google tempts devs with TensorFlow machine learning tech
Google is hoping to entice enterprises to use its cloud platform and machine learning technologies to build online recommendation engines for their websites. To do so, it’s just posted the following tutorial for a house-renting website that offers step-by-step instructions for developers looking to build an engine that can recommend homes to users based on ...
Mirantis advances pure-play approach in new OpenStack release
Pure-play OpenStack vendor Mirantis Inc. shipped out a major update to its distribution this week. Mirantis OpenStack 8 is based on OpenStack Liberty, the most recent stable release of the open-source cloud platform, which debuted last year. In its press release announcing the new release, Mirantis was keen to emphasize new features designed to enhance ...